If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor | Tim Winton

If fossil fuel dependency is a global addiction, climate activists are prophets trying to save us from our stupor | Tim Winton

Climate crisis, Fossil fuels, Environment, Fossil fuel divestment, Protest, Activism Business | The Guardian

​Legions of young people are getting organised, skilling up, raising their voices and placing their bodies in the path of those who profit from our addictionNot long before the Nazis murdered him, the Lutheran pastor and resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that “the ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children”.That moral challenge is timeless. But with the climate emergency upon us, it has an unsettling new edge, and with that in mind, I’ve been preoccupied lately by the under-appreciated power of solidarity. Continue reading… 

Legions of young people are getting organised, skilling up, raising their voices and placing their bodies in the path of those who profit from our addiction

Not long before the Nazis murdered him, the Lutheran pastor and resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that “the ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children”.

That moral challenge is timeless. But with the climate emergency upon us, it has an unsettling new edge, and with that in mind, I’ve been preoccupied lately by the under-appreciated power of solidarity.

Continue reading… 

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